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Montevideo (AFP) - Leftist former president Tabare Vazquez and his center-right rival Luis Lacalle Pou will head into a November 30 runoff after a presidential vote failed to deliver an outright winner, exit polls showed. View the full article

General Santos City — Local police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) personnel raided over the weekend a marijuana plantation located at the boundary between Malungon, Sarangani and Kiblawan, Sarangani. MARIJUANA RAID — Local policemen and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 12 personnel carry fully-grown marijuana plants which they uprooted and seized in a mountain village ... View the full article

An estimated €80,000 worth of plants were seized. View the full article

What's the Catch?, SBS One, 8.30pm Former Fairfax food writer turned lifestyle chef with his SBS series, Gourmet Farmer , Matthew Evans has perhaps made the most significant contribution to food journalism of his career with this revolutionary investigation into Australia's seafood industry, which has initiated a Senate inquiry into fish labelling. View the full article

Montevideo (AFP) - Ten years after surging to power for the first time, Uruguay's left is trying to hold onto it Sunday in elections to pick the successor to folksy iconoclast Jose Mujica. View the full article

By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans vote on Sunday in a presidential election with the ruling leftist party trying to fend off a young centre-right challenger who promises to undo a pioneering marijuana law. Outgoing President Jose Mujica, a 79-year-old former guerrilla, is seeking to hand power back to his predecessor Tabare Vazquez. Between them, Mujica and the 74-year-old ... View the full article

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COLONEL Samuel Blackall died in 1871 but on March 12, 1875 the people of Ipswich were still trying to decide what to erect to commemorate this popular man. View the full article

Camp President Quirino, Ilocos Sur — Joint operatives from the police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed a marijuana plantation spread across the tri-boundary of Benguet, La Union, and this province, last Thursday. PDEA Agent Dexter Legaspi said the operating troops discovered 24,170 fully-grown marijuana plants; 30,600 marijuana seedlings; and 30,500 grams of dried ... View the full article

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert Weiner, former White House Drug Policy spokesman for six years and spokesman for the Housed Narcotics Committee as well, also former spokesman for the House Government Operations Committee, has defused the myths and politics about marijuana legalization as numerous state and city referenda will be held on the issue in a little over a ... View the full article

San Juan, Oct 25 (IANS/EFE) A 14-month-old boy tested positive for marijuana in a toxicology exam at a San Juan hospital, where he was admitted after his parents became concerned that he was sleeping too much. View the full article

Washington (AFP) - The owners of the website Ebola. View the full article

TERMINALLY ill patients are dying without dignity while the nation’s peak doctors’ group stalls on medical marijuana reform, a respected Canberra physician has claimed. View the full article

Crikey's writer-at-large finds himself baked in Baker, but the battle for legalisation of marijuana is more about entrenched poverty and the revolving door of federal prison than about stoners' rights. Read more on the blog... View the full article

With the medical marijuana industry growing rapidly (23 states have now legalized some form of medical marijuana) many business people and investors are wondering how to break into the business. Right now, the industry is very tight-knit. However, there's a growing push to standardize and legitimize it, which is providing outlets for people who don't know about the industry to start learning. View the full article